Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Thursday, September 15th, 2022.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Huge news this morning. Adobe plans to acquire UI design and prototyping tool Figma

for around $20 billion in cash and stock. Figma CEO Dylan Field will

stay on in his role as head of Figma. Though shareholders don't seem to like this

news, Adobe's stock dropped 12% this morning on the news,

but come on, this is a smart defensive play on Adobe's part, right?

quoting Bloomberg.

The deal announced by Adobe, which is a mix of half cash and half stock,

confirms an earlier Bloomberg report

and would mark the biggest ever takeover of a private software company according to data

compiled by Bloomberg. Figma which allows customers to collaborate on

software as they build it saw demand jump during the pandemic while more people

worked remotely.

The company expanded its customer base in recent years from software designers at big companies like AirB&B,

Google, Herman Miller, and Kimberly Clark to also include individuals building lightweight games maps and

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